NOHARM study finds medical AI often matches or beats general practitioners
jonc101x · x · 2026-07-27
In the NOHARM study, frontier and medical-specific AI systems handled complex clinical consultations remarkably well, often matching or outperforming general practitioners — even when the doctors had references or AI assistance themselves.
The thread argues that the real risk is not just confidently wrong answers, but omission: reassuring users with "nothing to do" when a dangerous condition actually needs a workup.
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